August Exter

August Exter (born May 18, 1858 in Dürkheim , Pfalz, † December 7, 1933 in Obermenzing ) was a German architect .

Family grave of August Exter, Obermenzing cemetery, Munich.

Origin and education

Exter came from a widespread Palatinate merchant family that was based in Ludwigshafen, Neustadt and Bad Dürkheim. He was the cousin of the painter Julius Exter and the grandfather of Eva Dehm-Hasselwander . Exter studied in Munich and had been a member of the Corps Rheno-Palatia since 1876 . He had a son, August Wilhelm Klimmer (1885–1966).

Life

Exter mainly devoted himself to building settlements. Housing estates in Obermenzing, Laim , Gauting and Gröbenzell were built based on his designs . His most famous buildings include the Neu-Pasing I villa colony , which he created in the Munich suburb of Pasing in 1892 . The bourgeois society of Munich should be able to live in the green in the sense of the emerging garden city movement .

The only sacred building in Exters was the synagogue of the "Ohel Jakob" association on Herzog-Rudolf-Strasse in Munich, inaugurated in March 1892 , which was destroyed by arson during the pogrom on November 9, 1938.

After 1897

In 1897 Exter gave up its construction business and gradually withdrew from the architectural profession. It is therefore wrong to assume that he also built the Pasing II villa colony . In 1899, the aforementioned undeveloped property became the property of the Neu-Westend AG Terraingesellschaft. The majority shareholder was the Frankfurt banking house Lazard Speyer-Ellissen, managed by Georg Speyer . After Exter failed with Colony II, the Terrain Society carried out the development. Exters debts to the city of Pasing were taken over by the Royal Branch Bank. 90 houses had been built by 1900, but then construction progress stagnated. In 1929 106 houses were under construction, for which several hundred initial inquiries had been received.

Honors

The August-Exter-Straße in the villa colony Pasing I and in Olching was named after him, as well as the Exter street in Gröbenzell .

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 113 , 146
↑ On October 8, 1897, the Würmtalbote reported that “(...) Mr. Architect Exter will give up his construction business and will continue to limit himself to the sale of land. The previous site manager, Mr. Architect Numberger , will carry out the necessary structures . "
^ Pasinger Fabrik (ed.): Architect August Exter. Villas Colonies Pasing. (Publication for the exhibition from October 2 to 31, 1993) Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927984-19-1 , p. 25.
^ Hans-Otto Schembs : Georg and Franziska Speyer. Founders and patrons for Frankfurt a. M. Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-7829-0526-1 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Exter, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dürkheim , Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH	December 7, 1933
Place of death	Obermenzing

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 113 , 146

[2] On October 8, 1897, the Würmtalbote reported that “(...) Mr. Architect Exter will give up his construction business and will continue to limit himself to the sale of land. The previous site manager, Mr. Architect Numberger , will carry out the necessary structures . "

[3] Pasinger Fabrik (ed.): Architect August Exter. Villas Colonies Pasing. (Publication for the exhibition from October 2 to 31, 1993) Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927984-19-1 , p. 25.

[4] Hans-Otto Schembs : Georg and Franziska Speyer. Founders and patrons for Frankfurt a. M. Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-7829-0526-1 .